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A silent march organised by the far-right Democratic Football Lads’ Alliance in central London has erupted into violent scenes.

The Democratic Football Lads’ Alliance’s (DFLA) rally spun out of control after supporters pushed through police escorts and got in fights with officers.

Hundreds of mainly middle-aged male supporters were walking from Park Lane to Whitehall before some of them started to break free from police horse escorts on Pall Mall, with many chanting ‘Whose streets? Our streets?’.

A far-right march has turned violent in central London (Picture: Tom Nicholson/LNP)

A police officer is dismounted as he helps stop a breakaway from the main group (Picture: AP)

Some members of the crowd could be seen doing a Nazi salute (Picture: Wheatley/WENN)

The Democratic Football lads Alliance march from Park Lane to Whitehall to protest against migrant crimes, the ‘establishment’ and media silence (Picture: Penelope Barritt/REX)

Police stop a breakaway from the main Football Lads alliance march, as they attempt to get close to a rival anti-facist demonstration (Picture: AP)

There have been threats to kill police officers (Picture: Penelope Barritt/REX)

On Facebook, the march organisers had said they were protesting ‘returning jihadists’, ‘thousands of Awol migrants’, ‘rape gangs and groomers’ (Picture: Penelope Barritt/REX)

Dozens could be seen fighting with baton-wielding officers, with one seen threatening a policeman while being restrained by other marchers then screaming ‘I’ll kill you’.

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Scores of police on horseback and wearing riot gear tried to control the swelling groups with police vans trying to block them in.

Several hostile-looking men had to be held back from joining in the fighting by their friends, and at least one cameraman was seen wearing a helmet.

Vans and riot officers had to separate counter-demonstrators, many of them masked, who shouted: ‘Nazi scum off our streets’ at the DFLA.

At Trafalgar square DFLA marchers traded vicious insults with the counter-demonstrators, with both sides gesturing in a hostile manner at each other as riot police sought to keep them apart, bringing traffic around the famous landmark to a standstill.

A massive police operation is underway (Picture: Wheatley/WENN)

The march was initially intended to be silent (Picture: Penelope Barritt/REX)

Reports suggest the counter protesters numbers are greater than those of the Football Lads Association (Picture: Wheatley/WENN)

A spokesperson for the Met Police told Metro.co.uk that one person has so far been arrested.

Demonstrator Peter Mantell, 53, from Crayford, said: ‘I detest some of the people I’m walking with. A lot of them hate people because of the colour of their skin.